FinanceAI by Sergio Jardon

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Copilot your outlook to boost your email

Copilot your outlook to boost your email

If you have Microsoft 365 Copilot, you no longer need to bounce between a separate chat panel and your email to get AI help writing. As of the July 2026 rollout, Copilot works directly inside the compose window itself or as Microsoft calls it a "side-by-side drafting

Stop Routing Data Through Your LLM

Stop Routing Data Through Your LLM

Here's a pattern worth stealing if you're building agents that connect to more than a handful of tools: code execution with MCP. The default way most agent frameworks use the Model Context Protocol is to load every connected tool's full definition into context up

Your AI agent doesn't need the whole database

Your AI agent doesn't need the whole database

Here's a mistake I see when people build their first AI agent: they treat the context window like a bucket to fill. Got a customer database? Paste it in. A log file? Paste it in. In practice this backfires, the model gets buried in irrelevant rows, burns tokens

Beat Context Rot: Give Your AI Agent a Memory

Beat Context Rot: Give Your AI Agent a Memory

Beat Context Rot: Give Your AI Agent a Memory

Building the social path for your team

Building the social path for your team

Every manger or leader I know can name their best individual contributor without hesitating: the programmer or team member whose work keep winning internal bake-offs, the engineer everyone routes the hardest bugs to. What's harder to answer is whether that person is actually on a path to

AI's Growth Story Met Its Shadow

AI's Growth Story Met Its Shadow

Three storylines converged this week that say more about where the AI industry stands than any single headline could. Two of the most valuable AI labs on earth inched toward the public markets. Public opinion on AI hit a new low. And OpenAI posted a landmark usage milestone the same

Weekly news: IPOs, Exits, and Enforcement All Land in the Same Week

Weekly news: IPOs, Exits, and Enforcement All Land in the Same Week

For most of the past three years, the AI industry has operated on a simple rhythm: ship faster, raise bigger, worry about consequences later. Growth, growth, growth no matter what. Things are starting to get serious. A trillion-dollar IPO is moving from rumor to filing. One of Google'

AI Strategy Isn't Failing Because of the Technology. It's Failing Because of Leadership.

AI Strategy Isn't Failing Because of the Technology. It's Failing Because of Leadership.

At the 2025 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium, MIT Sloan Management Review asked a room full of technology and business leaders a deceptively simple question: what's the most common mistake organizations still make when shaping AI strategy? The answers, captured in MIT SMR's short video "9

Open Banking & APIs

digital transformation

Open Banking & APIs

Mexico's Fintech Law of 2018 was one of the world's first to mandate open banking. Welcome to the gap between ambition and implementation ,and why it matters for every financial product built in Mexico today.

Agent #005 The ops monitor

Agent #005 The ops monitor

The final agent in the AI Dev Squad watches your CI/CD pipelines around the clock. But the most important part of this post isn't the agent, it's the safety architecture that makes all five agents trustworthy in production.

Digital banking in Mexico, from branch lines to app stores

Banking Technology

Digital banking in Mexico, from branch lines to app stores

Mexico has 70+ million fintech users, a landmark Fintech Law, and a national digital finance strategy through 2030. So why does 85% of the population still pay for their morning tacos in cash? Welcome to the most fascinating contradiction in Latin American finance

Agents #003 and #004: Doc Writer and QA Agent. Documentation and Tests on Autopilot

Agents #003 and #004: Doc Writer and QA Agent. Documentation and Tests on Autopilot

Documentation is always out of date. Tests are always written last, if at all. Two agents fix both problems simultaneously , one updates your README, CHANGELOG, and API docs on every merge; the other generates test scaffolding the moment a Jira ticket moves to development.

Agent #002 - The Code Reviewer

Agent #002 - The Code Reviewer

Every pull request your team opens deserves a first review. Here is how to build an agent that reads every PR, detects bugs and security issues, posts structured feedback on Github and notifies. Before your first coffee

Agent 001: The Scrum Master

Agent 001: The Scrum Master

Your daily standup takes 30 minutes and produces a 90-second summary that nobody reads. Here's how to build an AI agent that reads your entire Jira sprint every morning, detects blockers automatically, and posts a structured report to Slack, before you even blink your eyes.

The AI Dev Squad: How to Build a Team of 5 AI Agents That Runs Your Dev Workflow

The AI Dev Squad: How to Build a Team of 5 AI Agents That Runs Your Dev Workflow

What if your team had a Scrum Master that never missed a blocker, a Code Reviewer that read every PR in 30 seconds, a Doc Writer that never fell behind, a QA Agent that generated tests from user stories, and an Ops Monitor that never slept? This is not a thought experiment. Here's how to build it.

9 seconds for panic

9 seconds for panic

Last week, an AI coding agent wiped out a company’s entire production database and backups in under 10 seconds. Here’s what went wrong, and how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you.

Welcome

jardon.ai is a space dedicated to artificial intelligence applied to financial systems. Here you'll find analysis, Python projects, and insights from a 15-year global banking executive making the transition into AI. You will read about. * AI & Machine Learning in banking and fintech * Legacy system migration